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...side, scammed them for $360 ($360? The other 000 is always omitted in family conversation, supposedly "to confuse the tourists"). Novelist Richard Condon's Prizzi family is not boroughs but planets distant from Mario Puzo's Corleones. These soldiers have no dignity and not a shred of redeeming decency. Don Corrado, with his "small, sharp eyes, as merry as ice cubes," is driven like all his men by pure avarice and a brutish lust for power. Prizzi and his top aides-loosely modeled on the late Carlo Gambino and his Mob-have never even "been beyond Brooklyn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Heel over Head | 5/17/1982 | See Source »

...government forces-the essence of a rebel propaganda broadcast-the graybeards picked the story apart. Only a handful of bodies had been found. There was no trace of large numbers of others. If 5,000 people had been there, they had been made to disappear without leaving a shred of proof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: War as a Media Event | 3/29/1982 | See Source »

Histrionics, tantrums and murky intelligence reports have become the watchword of Reagan's foreign policy, and they serve well to obscure topics like justice and poverty. The current uproar over Libyan "hit squads"--of whose existence not one shred of evidence has yet been offered--is tailored to frighten. Circle the wagons, or so the reasoning goes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Forgotten El Salvador | 12/14/1981 | See Source »

...refrigerator. He may refuse all food until you cook the same kind of bacon-and-cheese sandwich he enjoyed a week ago. He will, in the meantime, deposit a variety of dead and near dead things at the back door and stalk away for a nap. He may shred the antique silk draperies or decide that the shower stall is a Bauhaus litter pan. Whether the cat is friend or foe, many would agree with the prominent 18th century naturalist, the Count de Buffon. The cat, he wrote, "appears to have feelings only for himself, loves only conditionally and only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crazy over Cats | 12/7/1981 | See Source »

Middle guard Scott Murrer is the key to the defensive line, which must pressure Rogan and get to Diana quickly. Steady sophomore linebacker Andy Nolan must come through as well. If Rogan has time to unload--as Princeton's Holly and Dartmouth's Frank Polsinello did--he will shred the Crimson's secondary, however formidable...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: The Season Begins and Ends On Saturday | 11/19/1981 | See Source »

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